Propaganda
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Media Lens: Propaganda Blitz – A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support
When we started Media Lens in 2001, our guiding aspiration was that independent, web-based activism would have a profoundly positive impact on public discourse. Continue reading
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The Bluffer’s Guide to Bombing Syria By Peter Ford
he propaganda mills of the British and American governments – spokespersons, media, think tanks – are working overtime churning out ‘talking points’ to justify the upcoming large scale bombing of Syria on the pretext of use of prohibited weapons. Here is a guide from a former insider to the top dozen of these lies. Continue reading
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Censored film reveals The Israel Project’s secret Facebook campaign By Ali Abunimah and Asa Winstanley
The Israel Project, a major advocacy group based in Washington, is running a secret influence campaign on Facebook. Continue reading
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Reject the anti-Semitism slurs against Jeremy Corbyn! Drive out the Labour Party right wing! By Chris Marsden
Recent weeks have seen the acceleration of a campaign by the right-wing of the British Labour party to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite, in hopes of driving him from his position as leader of the party. In its scale and ferocity, these efforts have all the hallmarks of a destabilisation campaign involving MI5 in… Continue reading
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US Government Admits It’s Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba By: Ben Norton
the US government is doing exactly what it is accusing its enemies of: the US Office of Cuba Broadcasting is secretly creating fake social media accounts to inspire dissent and to spread right-wing pro-US, pro-capitalist propaganda in Cuba. Continue reading
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New fake ‘rescue’ scenes by White Helmets in Western media narrative on Syria
White Helmets operatives training “recruits”, rehearsal stage fires and fake lifesaving …and how to pose in photographs and videos later distributed by pro-NATO press agencies as if were ‘real rescue’ imagery or footage. Continue reading
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British Government Peddles Warmed Over Novichok Muck
4 July 2018 — Moon of Alabama It seems that Theresa May felt a need to stoke some more Russia hate: Just as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and attractive people, we Continue reading
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‘Novichok’: Here we go again!
“Professor Robert Stockman, of the University of Nottingham, said traces of nerve agents did not linger. He added: ‘These agents react with water to degrade, including moisture in the air, and so in the UK they would have a very limited lifetime. This is presumably why the street in Salisbury was being hosed down as… Continue reading
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'Novichok': Here we go again!
“Professor Robert Stockman, of the University of Nottingham, said traces of nerve agents did not linger. He added: ‘These agents react with water to degrade, including moisture in the air, and so in the UK they would have a very limited lifetime. This is presumably why the street in Salisbury was being hosed down as… Continue reading
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How the "Skripal Effect" Was Stopped By Ulson Gunnar
While the United Kingdom’s credibility unraveling played a major role in the UK’s own narrative failing, it has been the growing global alternative media that has exposed and diminished the true nature of British credibility in the first place. Continue reading
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Facebook and The Atlantic Council Unite: Now Social Media Giant Serves NATO’s Agenda By Bryan Macdonald
For the uninitiated, the Atlantic Council serves as the American-led alliance’s chief advocacy group. And its methods are rather simple: it grants stipends and faux academic titles to various activists that align with NATO’s agenda. Thus, lobbyists become “fellows” and “experts,”while the enterprise constructs a neutral sheen, which is rarely (if ever) challenged by Western… Continue reading
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Unmasking the White Helmets
British government official agencies are the patrons, managers and funders of the White Helmets, who have been the go-to source for the mainstream Western media reporting on the ongoing Syrian war. For good measure, the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development (USAID) has kicked in $23 million to finance Mayday Rescue, the cutout between… Continue reading
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Who’s Reacting to Iran Deal Pull-Out? Why, It’s Women in Chadors, Walking Past Anti-US Mural By Jim Naureckas
Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 10/21/17) called the “Woman in Chador Walks by Anti-US Mural” image “one of the most overused and toxic stock photos.” Documenting its ubiquity in online US coverage of Iran, Johnson argued that the cliche photo of “one or two Iranian women clad in black chadors, faces usually barely visible, walking past a… Continue reading
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Washington’s War on Western Minds: Selected Articles
4 May 2018 — Global Research What’s Washington Really Doing in Armenia? Color Revolution against Moscow? By F. William Engdahl, May 04, 2018 There has been considerable speculation in recent days as to whether the recent and ongoing protests across former Soviet Armenia constitute another Washington Color Revolution destabilization or whether it represents simply the angry Continue reading
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Emails reveal White Helmets tried to lobby ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters
Emails have emerged revealing how the controversial Syrian activist group the White Helmets tried to lobby Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters with Saudi money. The revelations have been published on Max Blumenthal’s project. Continue reading
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Poison Gas – Weapon of Choice for “False News”
12 April 2018 — Global Research News Poison Gas – Weapon of Choice for “False News” By Peter Koenig, April 12, 2018 The recent fake gas attack on Douma outside of Damascus, has allegedly killed 80 to 120 people, mostly women and children. Of course, that sells best in the propaganda theatre – women and children. But Continue reading
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Degeneracy and Fundamentalism of Western Media Control By Andre Vltchek
Lately, the West has gone clearly berserk. The more it is scared of losing control over the brains of billions of people in all corners of the world, the more aggressively it is screaming, kicking and making a fool of itself. Continue reading
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The “Russian Poisoning” Farce: Knobs and Knockers By Craig Murray
This narrative simply is not remotely credible. Nerve agents – above all “military grade nerve agents” – were designed as battlefield weapons. They do not leave opponents fighting fit for hours. There is no description in the scientific literature of a nerve agent having this extraordinary time bomb effect. Continue reading
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